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Problem with Acrobat Reader search function

cr1000
Registered: Feb 10 2011
Posts: 1

I am using Windows Vista with the latest install of Acrobat Reader 10. The program works fine EXCEPT for the find/search function which doesn't work at all on saved pdf documents. I had the exact same problem with Version 9. The programs seem to work fine when I'm searching a pdf online, but after I save it to my computer, the search no longer works. I've tested it with common names I know are in the document, and it keeps telling me it "no matches were found." This seems to be a chronic problem with any type of pdf document I save. What's the solution?

John W.

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Reader, Windows
uandme72
Registered: Jun 22 2011
Posts: 2
I am having problem with text search in Adobe reader latest version 9.3.

One pdf file generated through a pdf printer inside a word processing program and has around 100 pages. So there is no issue of having a scanned document which is not searchable.

In this document, when I try to search the text inside the pdf file using Adobe Reader 9.0, it is working alright and it is recognising the text searched for.

However, When the same pdf file is searched using Adobe Reader 9.3 and 9.4 etc it is not searching the text which is present at more than five places in the document.

Please advise.